Already Sri Lankan team decided to bowl in this match after winning the toss, both New Zealand and Sri Lankan teams will try hard to perform well in today's first T20 match. However, Sri Lankan team has performed very well in the warm-up match, many players of Sri Lankan team perform well in T20 matches and they can put pressure on the opposite team in terms of both bowling and batting performance in an aggressive manner. But in the end we must wait because it is very difficult to say which team will win this match correctly.
The match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka is in progress and so far I am looking Sri Lanka winning the game. Sri Lanka often beat New Zealand and this time too I am seeing the history to repeat again. NZ couldn't play better on home ground, that was bit of surprise for me today.
Sri Lanka needs to make 96 runs and they have 71 balls which is enough for them and the biggest advantage they have all the10 wickets in hand with them. Pathum Nissanka is batting on 47, in the next few minutes he will reach 50 and while his partner is playing in defending mood, hitting when the ball is on the radar to play a shot.
New Zealand gave a good target of 172 but I think this made some of the mistakes to score this. Firstly they did not make a good start that caused the batsmen to follow a bit of under pressure. However, they scored well and some of the batsmen in middle order played good game.
I would like to mention Daryl Mitchell who made 62 and also Michael Bracewell made 59 runs.
At the end of the innings, they scored 172 which was quite enough runs but they needed to get wickets if they want to defend this score. However i feel that not only they were unable to get wickets but also they underestimated the Sri Lankan batting line and took them a bit lightly.